Relief with milking scene
Type:
Funerary monument and ornaments
Year:
Old Kingdom, Dynasty V (2520–2360 B.C.)
Material and technique:
Painted limestone
Origin:
From Middle Egypt, from a mastaba in the Memphis necropolis
Inventory:
Inv. MB 2
This relief must have been next to the jamb of a “false door” or the entrance to a mastaba in the Memphis necropolis.
It depicts scenes from everyday life: milking cows (in the lower register), and the construction or repair of a boat (upper register).
Part of a third register originally positioned underneath this one is on a slab now at the museum of Dresden.
Masterpieces of the hall
The hall
FUNERARY RELIEFS
Nearly all the reliefs in the Barracco Museum’s collection belong to the funerary sphere.
They come from a type of tomb, the mastaba (from the Arabic word for bench), which was especially characteristic of Old Kingdom necropolises.
